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  1. Re:Might not be via TOR on Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6 Million Worth of Bitcoin Seized · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At least, that's what the "Parallel Construction" will say. Remember that TOR was released by the NSA. Perhaps it was released because they believed that only they had enough of a surveillance budget to monitor all the messages in route.

  2. Re:X is X on Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Ship Mir By Default · · Score: 1

    In the version with 13.04 you can click the program icon again, and it hides other windows and pops up all the windows under that application. It makes it 2 clicks, but . There is some weirdness if you have the window in a different workspace, but its not to bad. I have seen a system like this on a OSX a few years ago, I don't remember what they called it (expose?). The part with the question mark icons annoys me, they should do something about that.

  3. Re:I'm surprised MS had a Chief Privacy Advisor... on Former Microsoft Privacy Chief Doesn't Trust Company, Uses Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    If you read the headline carefully, you will see that he is the former privacy chief. Management at MS realized that his salary could go into stacks of more surface units and quickly canned him.

  4. Is it this? on John McAfee's Latest Project: Shielding Against Surveillance · · Score: 4, Informative
  5. If screen peeking has told me anything... on When Criminals and Terrorists Communicate In Real Time · · Score: 1

    Swat teams would love it if they had a real time camera on each target. It would be best if they strap it to their head so the swat can sneak up and shoot them in the back.

  6. Re:Casual use of Java was dead 10 years ago. on Will New Red-Text Warnings Kill Casual Use of Java? · · Score: 1

    This is true. But can Notch afford $100 for a cert? The https part of https://mojang.com/ hints yes.

  7. Re:Casual use of Java was dead 10 years ago. on Will New Red-Text Warnings Kill Casual Use of Java? · · Score: 1

    No, I work on a corporate website for a living. Last December i put the $100 on my credit card and filled out an expense report. Told the head of IT, no questions asked. Don't know where you work, but it sounds like a hell hole of bureaucracy.

  8. Re:Retards on Will New Red-Text Warnings Kill Casual Use of Java? · · Score: 0

    Do those embedded systems run the latest 1.7.0.40 Oracle Java? Because if they don't, it shouldn't matter. If they do, add a self signed cert to your embedded system.

  9. Casual use of Java was dead 10 years ago. on Will New Red-Text Warnings Kill Casual Use of Java? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I really don't think that there is a casual use of Java applets anymore. Banks and large corporations use it, but when was the last time you ran someone's java app that wasn't your own or a major corporation's? Large players can pay $100 a year for their app without thinking about it. Personal projects you trust and can push continue on. You shouldn't be running java apps from random other sources if you value security.

  10. What a waste on Undiscovered Country of HFT: FPGA JIT Ethernet Packet Assembly · · Score: 2, Insightful

    These people could be used to develop more efficient hardware for everyone to use, or fix medical conditions, rather than make rich traders even richer at the expense of another economic collapse. It seems wrong that our economy prioritizes high frequency trading so much.

  11. Re:No on Boy Scouts Bully Hacker Scouts Into Submission · · Score: 0

    Hopefully they never hear about the "Girl Scouts of America".

  12. Or it could be someone who doesnt want to be know. on Phantom Authors Publish Real Research Paper · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or there are some biologists out there working for a corporation that requires patents on all research. For some reason they don't agree with this. They are sticking it to the man by preempting their corporate master and posting anonymous coward.

  13. Step 1: Install license plate reader in cop cars.

    Step 2: Get a database of everyone to their plates from the DMV

    Step 3: Get a list of all drugs that you should not drive if you are on.

    Step 4: Get a database of what drugs people are on.

    Step 5: for every plate you see, check if they can be driving

    Step 6: pull over anyone who fits the profile. If their picture matches,

    Step 7: Issue tickets and jail time

    Step 8: profit!

  14. Re:Valve/Steam on NVIDIA Begins Releasing Documentation For Nouveau · · Score: 2

    Yeah, i was going to post that too. It may also be that Nvidia is worried that AMD will try to gain mindshare among Linux gamers. PS4 is running orbis (~freebsd) with AMD. Developers of C++ games may find it easier to port code to Linux from BSD than in previous generations. If the Steambox idea holds up, and the PS4 is truly indie-friendly, I can see a lot of games being ported.

  15. If it was only about sex and drugs maybe. on GTA V Proves a Lot of Parents Still Don't Know or Care About ESRB Ratings · · Score: 2

    At least 10 percent of parents would take their kids to see Michelangelo's David given the chance, even though he is in the nude. A masterpiece is a masterpiece, and art often gets past people's filters.

  16. Re:A radar? on Air Force Wants Technology That Will Let Drones Sense and Avoid Other Aircraft · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That would seem the obvious answer for civilian areas. I am wondering if there are power, weight or stealth requirements that radar doesn't fit. I would guess a stealth attack drone that you send it to shoot down their fighters would both need to be quite and be able to sense other aircraft. "Avoid" might be switched to "intercept" in the article title.

  17. Need to allow this official to be transparent on NSA Posts Opening For "Civil Liberties & Privacy Officer" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This official needs to have the ability to publicly whistle blow on anything he sees. If all he can do is report back to the NSA on his findings, no one will hear of it and nothing will change.

  18. Major source of driveby downloads on Snowden Docs: Brits Hacked Accounts of Belgian IT Admins · · Score: 1

    "It appears to be a method with which the person being targeted, without their knowledge, is redirected to websites that then plant malware on their computers that can then manipulate them."
    So that's who keeps doing that. And I was blaming flash gaming sites that my mother-in-law goes to.

  19. Re:Why bother. on Crowdfunded Bounty For Hacking iPhone 5S Fingerprint Authentication · · Score: 2

    Doesn't matter. if you tell the person you are going to chop off their finger and have a machete on hand to do it, they most likely will want to reset their password for you.

  20. Why bother. on Crowdfunded Bounty For Hacking iPhone 5S Fingerprint Authentication · · Score: 2, Funny

    With a $10 Walmart machete from the camping aisle, you can "Hack" off the key for yourself.

  21. How do you like that movies? on GTA V Makes $800 Million In 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    For income comparison. Keep in mind that GTA5 made that 800 million in one day.

    http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross
    1. Avatar (2009) $760,505,847
    2. Titanic (1997) $658,672,302
    3. The Avengers (2012) $623,279,547
    4. The Dark Knight (2008) $533,316,061

  22. Think of the moons! on Join the Efforts of a Manned Mission To Jovian Moon Europa · · Score: 1

    Send a probe. If the moon really is able to harbor life, sending humans risks contamination.

  23. Re:3.3 million down the drain on No Child Left Untableted · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'd wager a highschool kid with a computer and a programming course could do more math problems per hour than a million pre WW2 students. Things people learn change as the importance changes. Most college students know more calculus than Archimedes, does that make them better at math? Measuring knowledge across time is not a valid test.

  24. Re:Conversion? on Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol. 1 Released in HTML Format · · Score: 2

    Or use this:
    htlatex feynman1.tex

  25. Get Your Tinfoil Hats on Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans · · Score: 4, Informative

    I would guess that an intelligence agency figured this out a few years ago. One that can plant moles at Intel. That's why they also want to remove rdrand from Linux.
    http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/09/10/1311247/linus-responds-to-rdrand-petition-with-scorn